What served as the inspiration for P.B Shelley's poems to the working classes ?
Correct answer: D. the Peterloo Massacre
- A. A Song: "Men of England" and England in 1819?
- B. the organization of a working class men's choral group in Southern England
- C. the Battle of Waterloo
- D. the Peterloo Massacre
- E. the storming of the Bastille
Explanation
The Peterloo Massacre of 1819, in which a reform meeting was violently dispersed, intensified Shelley's political poetry. It helped inspire works such as “The Mask of Anarchy” and “England in 1819.”
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